[In Quarantine] What I Learned Last August & September

I know I’ve mentioned previously about wanting to post more regularly but August was too cruel and I was unable to update. I realized though that my mental faculties are becoming dull and I had to use my brain.

I was sick the whole of August until September 1st week. What started as allergies turned into an entire digestive system flare-up. I don’t know what exactly triggered the first symptoms but it was like a series of dominoes crashing down from then. There was pain, some blood, and excessive belching which turned out to be GERD (I thought I was just gassy) that just wouldn’t go away for days. Later on, the acid lacerated my throat and I couldn’t eat properly for almost a week.

Initially, I tried to deal with it through the typical Filipino way of enduring. At the end of the second week, I finally messaged an SOS to my brother to hook me up with his doctor friends because it got to a point where I kept waking up every 2 hours for consecutive nights.

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